This is just the nature of tournaments. One tends to remember the hand when one gets busted the most. The hands before that fade in memory. If you are tight, then, almost by definition, you are likely to go out versus a weaker starting hand. To win 25-30 flips, and scoop a tournament, then you have to be very very lucky, even if you happen to be way ahead before the flop each time.
In the early phases, in tournaments with better fields, then you can expect to be played back at by people holding speculative hands on draw heavy boards. Hands like unimproved QQ and the like tend to win small pots, and lose the big ones.
Just busted myself. Raised it up with TT, flop is T93 with two diamonds. Get check-raised all in by QT of diamonds, and the river comes a diamond. These things happen, and the QTs hand owner played it perfectly.
The only thing you can do (except to whine a little bit) is to get your chips in with positive EV. After that, it is up to the cards. You should be grateful for that, because if it wasn't up to the cards, both you, me, and John Doe, would be without a chance to win versus even better players than us.
Edit: And, of course, Asaban got before me 
In general it's due to selective recognition and missing sample size. You will always remember these kind of hands but forget about the ones that worked the way they should.
/Johan = 
